Tutorial Perspective Drawing (Still Life)

Still life perspective drawing

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Assignment 1: Company/Brand Name Mascot

For this assignment we are to create a Mascot for an existing brand. The brand I chose was Hershey's Company. I created a mascot for 3 of the Hershey's Flavours: Cookies n' Cream, Caramel Chocolate and The original, Milk Chocolate. Each Character has a unique characteristic. They are the Main characters for this assignment.

For Cookies and Cream I chose to name the character Cream. I made Cream to be a cute innocent, looking character therefore making her the central character of all the mascots. She has a bubbly personality with a positive attitude. She wears black and white dress with cookie headpiece, which clearly shows her encouragement for the company which makes her a great mascot.

For Caramel Chocolate, I chose to name the character Joe (Caramel Joe) Joe is a lazy character, who often forgets things and trips a lot. Although, Joe maybe a klutz, he has a great obsession with Caramel Chocolate in fact, that's all he ever eats. Joe also has the habit of pushing random buttons which sometimes can come in handy...

For The original chocolate (Milk Chocolate) I chose to name the character Chase. Chase is a impulsive character (screwball) he's fast at almost everything and tends to get himself all tangled up in situations. Chase loves to eat Hersey's Milk chocolate almost as much as Joe eating Caramel Chocolate he also has the positive attitude for a Mascot and will not get anything in the way.


Now that we have the Mascots, Protagonists (Main characters), We also have the Villains (Antagonists)
Now these characters will do anything to ruin the joy and passion these mascots have for their company in fact, these villains want to destroy Hershey's Company and have their own company take over.

I chose to create 2 villains one is the main villain, and the other is a sidekick who is almost always with the main villain.

Vilian #1: Dr. Van Valmi (also known as Dr. VV) Small, pessimistic old man. Also is the owner of Fru.Co. which produces "Fruiti" Bars which are also popular on being disgusting. Dr.VV wants to have his company take over, and plans to "destroy" Hershey's Co. Dr.VV may seem clever, but his plans always backfires.

Vilian #2: Darko. Darko is a huge, threatening looking character, but has the brain the size of a walnut. He doesn't think for himself, and only tends to do what Dr. VV says (to scare off the Hershey Kids) which makes him his sidekick and guard.

Story Board:

Here are some of the rough sketches produced to make the finals (shown above)

Rough sketch of Cream

Rough sketch of Joe

Rough sketch of Chase

Rough sketch of  Dr.VV

Rough sketch of  Darko

Tutorial sketches: Line and Balance

For the tutorial, we are analysing the asymmetrical balance of characters. We are to "correct" the balance of each character to make them look more dramatic, and asymmetrical

Here are come sketches that have been corrected to make the character more "dramatic"

Screwball (Hype) Character

This character is a bold, yet hype character. Their body structure is more alert (than a goofy character) A screwball character will have body features like: a pear shaped body ( like a cute character) skinny arms but large hands and feet (like a goofy character) they're usually small in size. A screwball facial features would be:eyes apart (but not too apart like the cute character), which gives them that alert, and impulsive look, a big mouth, possibly a long nose, and a small chin. They also have a low forehead and archy eyebrows.

Cute Character

Now here is a more soft, and innocent character. They have a more fragile body structure (like a baby or a little child) Cute characters basically have all of the "cute" features. A small chubby face with the huge eyes positioned far apart, a tiny nose, and a cute little smile. Their head shape is big. Their body structure is a pear shaped torso. Their legs, as well as the arms, are chubby, and their feet are tiny.

Goofy Character

Here's a sketch of a goofy character. Goofy characters tend to have a slouchy posture with a long neck (Adam's apple is very obvious), the chest caved in, and their long skinny arms hanging at the sides. They also have large feet. A goofy character's facial features are: droopy half-lidded eyes close together a small head and no chin.

Cartoon Sketch: Bad Guy

Our pervious tutorial focused on body proportions and analyzing different types of characters such as the bad guy, goofy guy, the cute & innocent character, and screwball (hyper) character.
Here are some sketches analyzing each of these character starting with the Bad guy.